Photo ID: 107724 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1060 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific Fall looks and feels more like winter as a UP officer's special heads west out of Leyden. It is lightly raining and is 30°F outside. The headlights from the lead unit glowing in the wintery fog. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107656 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, July 26, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1128 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific, BNSF After meeting an eastbound manifest at Leyden, this westbound coal empty is pulling out of the siding and heading west. Three units are more than sufficient power for this (relatively light) empty. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107555 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1166 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak It is a bit of a dark morning this morning as a (somewhat uncommon) morning thunderstorm rolls through the area. The morning has seen winds along the front range of up to 60 MPH, resulting in a slow order for Amtrak ahead around Big Ten Curve. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107554 Date Shot Photo By Friday, June 22, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1127 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak On a rather gloomy summer morning, the westbound Zephyr is running about three hours late due to some track maintenance projects that are creating some bottlenecks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107545 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, June 21, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1189 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific If you look closely, you can clearly see part of the train ahead as it is entering Leyden. That part of the train is just to the left of UP 9053. Because the train is 7,000-feet long, it couldn't fit in most of the sidings along the Moffat, Leyden included. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107521 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 31, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1080 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A very unusual site on the Moffat these days, a westbound contain train leaves Leyden, starting the climb up the hill. The train was called for 10:30am, but it took 5 1/2 hours before it finally departed North Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107514 Date Shot Photo By Friday, May 25, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1263 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak It is very rare that the westbound Zephyr has light like this when it departs Denver! A BNSF derailment in Illinois resulted in the Zephyr being 10 hours late in to Denver. Here, the train is just west of Leyden and charging west through a "sucker hole" in the clouds. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107503 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, May 24, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1161 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF A nice, long telephoto shot of BNSF 4978 draws in North Table Mountain in Golden in the distance. While it may not seem like it due to the compression effect, the mountain is actually over four miles away to the south! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107492 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 21, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1296 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak Unfortunately, most of the fields in the Denver area spend much more of the year looking brownish and dead than they do green and alive. Fortunately, May is a time when they are typically the greenest! And passengers onboard the eastbound California Zephyr can enjoy the view as the train rolls by just west of Leyden, running right on time. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107477 Date Shot Photo By Wednesday, May 16, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1110 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A westbound coal empty heads west out of Leyden on a beautiful May afternoon. The train is headed for the West Elk Mine on the North Fork Branch. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107379 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 16, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1200 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak The Westbound Zephyr, with a few extra Superliners that bring the total to ten, charges west of Leyden with the Denver skyline silhouetted in morning mist in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107378 Date Shot Photo By Friday, March 16, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1158 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Amtrak An extended California Zephyr heads west of Leyden on a sunny March morning. Amtrak this morning has ten Superliners, including two Sightseer Lounge cars! That's because the entire train has been rented out for an event known as "Train Jam". The entire train is carrying software gaming developers on their way to the "Game Developers Conference" in San Francisco. Because the entire train has been rented out, and because all passengers have a common destinations, Amtrak will not be stopping at most of the stations along the route. Mainly stations that include a crew change. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107374 Date Shot Photo By Thursday, March 15, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1209 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific The eastbound MRONY is relatively short today, with two units on the point and a single DPU bringing up the rear. A UP ES44AC and a CSX AC4400CW lead the way toward a clear signal at Leyden. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107315 Date Shot Photo By Tuesday, February 27, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1132 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) Union Pacific A westbound coal empty with seven units on the head end heads west out of Leyden on a beautiful February morning. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 107314 Date Shot Photo By Monday, February 26, 2018 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Leyden Arvada, CO 1216 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Moffat Tunnel (UP) BNSF The DPU on this BNSF manifest is a (relatively new) ET44C4. The train had an ET44C4 on the head end as well, although this is one of the very early versions of the ET44C4. You can tell as the second of long hood just ahead of the radiator housing is very boxy. In later versions of the model, that housing that sticks up is contoured to look a bit more natural with the rest of the radiator. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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